News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two Lynn men pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Tyrone Swan was sentenced to six years and three months (75 months) in federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and para-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl in 2018, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Lee’s Summit, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Walnut Shade, Missouri, woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl in the Springfield area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who was arrested after postal inspectors seized a large quantity of methamphetamine in the mail, pled guilty today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stewart Longworth Jordan III, 27, pled guilty to attempted possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Mexican National who was charged in the first major narcotics trafficking indictment resulting from an investigation by the Los Angeles Strike Force was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison for his role in an international narcotics network that transported 21 pounds of pure methamphetamine across the United States-Mexico border on behalf of a drug trafficking organization linked to the Sinaloa Cartel.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced today that the fifth meeting of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, originally scheduled to be held in Washington, DC, later this week, will move...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON W.Va. - A Huntington woman caught selling heroin in Huntington in 2018 was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Tonya Lynn Thompson, 37, previously entered a guilty plea to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Canadian telemarketer was sentenced this morning to 41 months in federal prison for conning American senior citizens by impersonating their grandchildren over the telephone and asking for financial help to get the purportedly distressed relatives out of trouble in a foreign country.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 420 months in prison for distributing heroin and cocaine from a house in northeast Cincinnati, and for possessing firearms in furtherance of drug crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: Richard Pence is Longest Serving Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles city councilman surrendered to FBI agents this morning to face criminal charges that he obstructed an investigation into him accepting cash, female escort services, hotel rooms and expensive meals from a businessman during trips to Las Vegas and Palm Springs, and later lied to the FBI about his conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has pleaded guilty to federal narcotics charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An associate of the DeCavalcante crime family today admitted possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute and possessing a firearm during the course of a drug crime, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: A Blackshear man who claims membership in a notorious white supremacist street gang has been indicted on federal drug charges, while a Bloomingdale, Ga., gang member faces a firearms charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: Ginger Jr. left his family, who were at the hospital grieving his father’s death, broke into his mother’s house and stole the guns.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 123,500 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin D. Whatcott will be the new Criminal Chief for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Idaho, announced U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis. He succeeds Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Lucoff as the Criminal Chief. Mr. Lucoff was the Criminal Chief for over nine years.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, was signed into law to cut down on billions of dollars in wasteful government spending. The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 will...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing firearms and methamphetamine to distribute.
